Credits

A more graphically-intense (using "Flash") version of this website was conceived as a class project for "Honors Seminar IV: Polynesia--Cultures and Contact Zones" (Spring 2001). 

If you have a website hyperlink that you would like to see added to one of our link sections or have other comments about the site, please email Associate Professor Bruce A. Harvey (English Department, Florida International University): harveyb@fiu.edu.

The contributors to the site from the original class are as follows:

    Karriel Augustin --  missionaries and Maori history

    Lara Brudno --  Gauguin and overall aesthetics of site

    Joana Cordoba --  aquatic Polynesian animals and Captain Bligh

    Claudia Cubas --  introduction and tourism

    Melissa Duynhouwer -- editor of essays on the site

    Stacey Eng --  geological formation of Hawaii

    Andrew Hagewood --  webpage designer (for "Flash" graphics version)

    Alexandria Martin --  Hawaiian statehood and Polynesian timeline

    Helena Poleo --  Hula and films about Polynesia

    Kristopher Torres --  Hawaiian myths and Polynesian tattooing

Additional contributors to this site as it continues to develop are: